| Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 00/11] locks: scalability improvements for file locking | From | Davidlohr Bueso <> | Date | Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:04:52 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 23:07 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > This is not the first attempt at doing this. The conversion to the > i_lock was originally attempted by Bruce Fields a few years ago. His > approach was NAK'ed since it involved ripping out the deadlock > detection. People also really seem to like /proc/locks for debugging, so > keeping that in is probably worthwhile.
Yep, we need to keep this. FWIW, lslocks(8) relies on /proc/locks.
Thanks, Davidlohr
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